This week we celebrate the silver anniversary of an event that almost didn’t happen because I’m a flake, and back then I was worse. The summer I graduated from college, Mike drove me home and we started talking about our shared, bucolic vision of owning horses and rearing children who would wear gingham and have […]

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Last week I received an invitation from Ashley in Alabama. It was less of an invitation, really, than a summons. Ashley’s PR firm is starting a blog targeting women “of a certain age,” featuring content that will focus on what they’ve decided are some of our favorite F-words: family, friendship, faith, fashion, friendship, fitness, finances […]

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It’s that time of year when our grass has turned brown and crinkly and I’m giving serious thought to xeriscaping, or maybe installing a Brady-family era AstroTurf lawn. August is also known in the life of a CSA subscriber as “isn’t it about time we get some freaking tomatoes?” About six years ago, I read […]

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Earlier this week, I was lying in bed, at o’dark something-or-other, trying to clear my head. “You’re awake aren’t you?” Mike said. Yup. We haven’t been getting a lot of sleep around here. We went out to the living room and Jack was there, on the couch with a quilt, scrolling through his phone. He’d […]

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If you’ve been paying attention the last three and a half weeks, you’ve probably heard a cacophony of opinions about Pokémon Go. Well actually, you’ve probably mostly heard people griping about how stupid it is that someone put a snipe hunt into a phone app and suddenly everyone’s flocking to city parks like Columbus just discovered a “New World.” […]